85 Responses to “Farting preacher back on YouTube”

…It’s Tilton. A similar tape exists of Benny Hinn as well. IIRC, KDFW in Dallas was the source of the first set of tapes for each, and while all the farts are added, they’re also considered by most experts to be authentic just on general damn principle :-) :-)

OK, I can appreciate that this video is making the rounds again, but calling Robert Tilton “Farting Preacher” is like calling Hitler “The Easter Bunny.”

At one time, Tilton was the worst of the worst, bilking more old ladies out of their money than anyone ever had—indeed, more than anyone has in the decades to follow. Most of the letters sent in were discarded without even being read; their donations removed, prayers unanswered.

Tilton managed to piss off a lot of people with his “Jews in New York” comment on Inside Edition, I believe, and on the following Easter, he fumblingly apologized to his Jewish brethren, to no avail. It was the end of an era. Since those days, Robert Tilton wound up, for a time, on BET, in the middle of the night, seemingly humbled, still begging for cash.

One can only hope that his subsequent disappearance from the airwaves is an indication that the world has become a bit smarter, but as anyone who was watching George Bush at the Olympics knows, it prolly just ain’t so.

The first few added farts are funny, especially since they add them when he’s screwing up his face as if in concentration, or fighting off an attack of twitching.

It gets old fast. But I kept watching longer than I otherwise would have because I was so flabbergasted that even the dumbest, most senile old widder woman could be taken in by a con man this obvious. I mean, he’s such a broad stereotype that he’d be considered over the top on South Park!

for you “photoshop” people… this video was making the round in the late 1980s.

my friends and I made the LSD influenced 100-mile Sunday morning drive north on I35 to Tilton’s “Word Of Faith” church a good dozen times from ’87-’90. Nothing was better than the KISS record burnings! save for maybe the ‘hummina hommina boogita bigita’ glossolalia nonsense.

One friend lost his entire college fund to Tilton’s ministry (what was it… Suburbia[the punk classic not the GenX tripe] that had the same story?)

Up until a few years ago, when my wallet was heisted, I carried a Tilton “Prayer Cloth” in my wallet. Although the wallet itself was routinely empty I was always “rich”.

Absolutely brilliant. This is more professionally done than the Iranian use of Photoshop to hype their missile capability. The farting preacher also stands to create more peace throughout the world… with laughter.

#40, no doubt, this does get old fast. The farts used were all of a consistent level of “dryness”. After about five of them, I was, like, you can’t tell me that I’m supposed to believe that each and every one of this guys bowel expulsions were of the dry and airy variety. No squeakers, hissers, fizzles, blats, wetties, poofs, creepers, bubblies, squisher, or mufflers? How am I supposed to suspend my disbelief and loose myself in the moment? I know that this was done back in the eighties, but come on. Foley artistry was alive and well back then. Low-brow teen movies were a dime a dozen, from what I recall, all of them had at least a few fart jokes.
The bottom line is, if you’re not going to take your craft seriously, then why should I spend my time watching your bootlegged movies for free on the internets!

Sorry, my post previous post was responding to #42, not #40. Also apologies to anyone grossed out by my lexicon. I was attempting a facetious lampoon of the act of over-criticizing something as simple as fart jokes.
Also, Antinious, I wouldn’t put it past myself.

“I still remember one story they profiled on the show, where a kid had cancer, so his mother sent a “thousand dollar vow” to Robert Tilton. The kid then prayed with his hand on top of the tv, and (praise JESUS!) the television set somehow miraculously became warm. he was, of course, healed. “

…IIRC, SciAm and Randi debunked this one a while back. The TV set was an old, defective B&W model that “miraculously” had the picture tube go flakey during the “hands-on” moment. As a result, the kid got what to a normal person would have been a lethal dose of x-rays, but instead got just the right amount to kill his cancer. It rendered him sterile, and he glowed in the dark for some two weeks afterwards, but at least he lived to grow up.

Is anyone actually trying to sell it as real? I thought it was a pretty deliberate attempt to graft farting noises onto footage of the ridiculous faces and gestures that Tilton makes, solely to make fun of the con artist/preacher, not to try and fool anyone into believing that he’d actually made those farts during his programming…

A very nice… ah… chaser… (ahem.) Loved the links, and Youtube recommendation Success N Life. I can’t believe there are so many of these. Now all of you who have Netflix, go to instant access and watch Jesus Camp, if you have not already, for more evangelical bizarreness.

Totally hilarious and yet also totally messed up. This guy is so shameless, so over the top full of shit, taking money from so many sad, desperate people who don’t know any better.

Personally, I don’t believe in heaven or hell but I can certainly understand the attraction of such belief. If I knew that hell existed, I’d be comforted knowing that people like this would surely be there at the head of the line. Right there along with any number of people currently in power who wear love for Jesus on their sleeves while they murder, torture, steal, lie and destroy.

Oh man. Brother Bob! I used to watch him all the time when I was a teenager. Even at 13 and 14, I could NOT BELIEVE that anyone would ever fall for this shit. I still remember one story they profiled on the show, where a kid had cancer, so his mother sent a “thousand dollar vow” to Robert Tilton. The kid then prayed with his hand on top of the tv, and (praise JESUS!) the television set somehow miraculously became warm. he was, of course, healed.

For some GREAT film of a very talented fake preacher (and one who happily acknowledged his whole act was bullshit), see the great seventies-tastic documentary film Marjoe. Marjoe Gortner looked almost exactly like Matthew McConaughey.

you all that see this getting old quick (after a few passes of holy ghost) are really quite JADED…
watch it once again or twice again and you’ll see, yesss you’lll ssseeeeee that it’s soooooooooooooooooooooooo ovvvvvveeeeerrrrr theeee frrrippppppppppppppp’nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn top that I put it on myspace page:

The fake farts aside, I love this guy. He’s so shamelessly full of shit one has to stand in awe. I would occasionally run across his program, and just could not pull myself away. He gets himself worked up, and then does this “speaking in tongues” routine; he’ll interupt himself by suddenly looking up and straight into the camera, and say “I see someone who is afflicted with arthritis”, or whatever. He will then instruct the ailing viewer to place the hurting limb on the TV set, so he can better direct his prayer for a speedy recovery. All the while he’s keeping up a steady pitch to call him, and send a ‘prayer offering’. Call the number and get them to send you a packet, it’s truly marvelous in it’s manipulativeness. Warped as hell, but at the same time brilliant. Another great one was on the AM radio, Reverend Ike. He once sent me a shower cap, that had a hand print printed on it. You are meant to don it, and get the same kind of blessing as if the Reverend himself had just clapped his big ol’ hand onto your skull. Balls, that’s all I can say, big ones. I’ll bet they all make a fortune of tax free moolah, too. Workin’ it baby, workin’ it. Hallelujah!!!

Dudes there have been 5 different compilations of farting Tilton on Ebaum for years. I’m surprised so many commenters are either a) believing this is real or b) crying fake. Of course it’s fake! What televangelist would ever air themselves farting all over their sermons?! Dear lord, people, get with the program.